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Basic Mail Commands

@nn : You can read all unread messages, one at a time.

@nn

Message 1 on *General Mailing List (#1787): Date: Tue Apr 10 07:38:40 2001 PDT From: Cheyan (#3668) To: *General Mailing List (#1787) Subject: Nostalgia Do you remember...
@skip : You can skip to the end of a mailing list.

@skip *gen

Ignoring 129 unread messages on *General (#1787)
@mail : You can list the subject headers of your last 15 received mail.

@mail

or, from a specific list and indexes

@mail 127-131 on *gen

127: Aug 6 Rafe [IC] Soldier 128: Aug 8 Azmeos WALK 129: Aug 11 CzarAlex Uncle Czar w 130: Aug 13 Azmeos WALK 131: Aug 15 Rafe RPstaffer Pl
@read : You can read a specific message by its index number.

@read 131 on *gen

Message 131 on *General Mailing List: Date: Fri Aug 15 11:43:26 2003 PDT From: Rafe (#19069) To: *General Mailing List (#1787) Subject: RPstaffer Plot Sorry I wasn't here last night, I was hit by the Mega-Blackout last night in Ontario...
@send : You can send a message to someone or a mailing list or both. This command takes you to the mail editor and prepares a message to the *ideas mailing-list.

@send *ideas

Subject: [Type a line of input or `@abort' to abort the command.]

My Plot Idea
Composing a letter to *ideas (#213) entitled "My Plot Idea"
The Mail Editor : Here is an example of how to use the mail editor, after you have typed the @send command.

enter

[Type lines of input; to end, type a period on a blank line.]

hi i hope you like my *idea here it goes... .

Lines 1-3 added.

list

1: hi 2: i hope you ;ike my *idea __3_ here it goes... ^^^^

ins 2

__1_ hi ^^2^ i hope you ;ike my *idea

"i hope you like my *idea

Line 2 added.

list

1: hi __2_ i hope you like my *idea ^^3^ i hope you ;ike my *idea 4: here it goes...

del 3

i hope you ;ike my *idea ---Line deleted. Insertion point is before line 3.

print

Date: Sun Sep 7 09:40:15 2003 PDT From: Newbie (#56789) To: *ideas (#213) Subject: My Plot Idea hi i hope you like my *idea here it goes... --------------------------

send

Sending... Mail actually sent to *Ideas (#213)

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